List of the best Mervyn LeRoy movies: I Am a Fugitive From a Chain Gang(1932), Random Harvest(1942), Waterloo Bridge(1940), Gold Diggers of 1933(1933), Mister Roberts(1955), No Time for Sergeants(1958), Five Star Final(1931), Madame Curie(1943), Little Caesar(1930), They Won't Forget(1937), Three on a Match(1932), Gypsy(1962) ... ...
8.2/10
Drama
USA
1932
93 Minutes
Director
Paul Muni Glenda Farrell Helen Vinson Preston Foster Edward Ellis Allen Jenkins Noel Francis Berton Churchill
veteran prisoner guard landlady lawyer bleak brutal intense georgia diner prison chicago construction site prison injustice torture escape aspirations jealousy escape
Wrongly convicted James Allen serves in the intolerable conditions of a southern chain gang, which later comes back to haunt him.
8.0/10
Drama
USA
1942
124 Minutes
Director
Ronald Colman Greer Garson Philip Dorn Susan Peters Reginald Owen Henry Travers Margaret Wycherly Bramwell Fletcher Arthur Margetson Jill Esmond Marta Linden
veteran showgirl fiancée sibling doctor government official emotional passionate england mental institution music hall household small town amnesia world war i car crash inheritance election relationships love
An amnesiac World War I veteran falls in love with a music hall star, only to suffer an accident which restores his original memories but erases his post-war life.
7.8/10
Romance
USA
1940
103 Minutes
Director
Vivien Leigh Robert Taylor Lucile Watson C. Aubrey Smith Maria Ouspenskaya Virginia Field Leo G. Carroll Clara Reid Steffi Duna Leonard Mudie Herbert Evans
officer ballerina prostitute mother friend uncle emotional passionate london estate countryside underground apartment waterloo bridge world war i prostitution deception heartbreak struggle romance
During World War I, believing her fiance to be dead, a young ballerina loses her job and is forced to turn to prostitution.
7.7/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1933
96 Minutes
Director
Joan Blondell Ruby Keeler Dick Powell Aline MacMahon Guy Kibbee Warren William Ned Sparks Ginger Rogers Sterling Holloway Ferdinand Gottschalk Robert Agnew
showgirl singer songwriter theatrical producer wealthy man brother engaging playful rousing new york city apartment broadway theater poverty wealth show business romance deception song and dance underdog love
A wealthy composer rescues unemployed Broadway performers with a new play.
7.7/10
Comedy
USA
1955
123 Minutes
Mervyn LeRoy Henry Fonda Jack Lemmon James Cagney William Powell Ward Bond Betsy Palmer Philip Carey Nick Adams Harry Carey Jr. Ken Curtis
naval officer nurse captain doctor sailor hilarious amusing crafty cargo ship south pacific tyrants boredom practical jokes world war ii adventure rivalry 1940s
In the waning days of World War II, the United States Navy cargo ship Reluctant and her crew are stationed in the "backwater" areas of the Pacific Ocean. Trouble ensues when the crew members are granted liberty.
7.6/10
Comedy
USA
1958
119 Minutes
Director
Andy Griffith Myron McCormick Nick Adams Murray Hamilton Howard Smith Will Hutchins Sydney Smith
farmer best friend private sergeant pilot hilarious offbeat barracks airplane georgia air force boot camp misfits training underdog adventure 1950s
Will Stockdale is a country bumpkin drafted into the Air Force and too dumb to realize he's driving everyone around him crazy, no one more than Sergeant King.
7.2/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1931
89 Minutes
Director
Edward G. Robinson H.B. Warner Marian Marsh Anthony Bushell George E. Stone Frances Starr Ona Munson Boris Karloff Robert Elliott Aline MacMahon Purnell Pratt
editor news reporter murderer publisher secretary love interest melodramatic dark new york city journalism ethics suicide deception family love fall wretched excess 1930s
The City Editor of a sleazy tabloid goes against his own journalistic ethics to resurrect a twenty year old murder case... with tragic results.
7.2/10
Biography
USA
1943
124 Minutes
Director
Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon Henry Travers Albert Basserman Robert Walker C. Aubrey Smith
marie curie pierre curie scientist professor husband wife fascinating inspiring moving paris university laboratory scientific experiments marriage honor research partnership discovery love rise
Despite himself, accomplished physicist and avowed bachelor Pierre Curie falls for brilliant student Marie, and together they embark on the discovery of radium.
7.2/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1930
77 Minutes
Director
Edward G. Robinson Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Glenda Farrell Stanley Fields Sidney Blackmer Ralph Ince George E. Stone Nick Bela
criminal dancer love interest gangster melodramatic intense chicago nightclub ambition friendship crime show business dance rise fall underdog 1930s
A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.
7.2/10
Drama
USA
1937
94 Minutes
Director
Claude Rains Edward Norris Allyn Joslyn Gloria Dickson Otto Kruger Elisha Cook Jr. Lana Turner Linda Perry
student district attorney professor judge governor janitor tense profound disturbing town courtroom classroom lynching prejudice revenge 1930s
A politically ambitious district attorney, unscrupulous tabloid journalists, and regional prejudice combine to charge a teacher with the murder of his student.
7.2/10
Drama
USA
1932
64 Minutes
Director
Warren William Joan Blondell Ann Dvorak Bette Davis Lyle Talbot Humphrey Bogart Patricia Ellis Grant Mitchell Sheila Terry Glenda Farrell
mother lawyer actress secretary mobster husband melodramatic tense new york city school household kidnapping friendship marital problems drug addiction mafia fall temptation transformation love
Although Vivian Revere is seemingly the most successful of a trio of reunited schoolmates, she throws it away by descending into a life of debauchery and drugs.
7.1/10
Musical
USA
1962
149 Minutes
Director
Rosalind Russell Natalie Wood Karl Malden Paul Wallace Betty Bruce Parley Baer Harvey Korman
stripper mother daughter rousing fiery gripping cheeky theater wichita, kan. strip club entertainment aspirations mother/daughter relationship family dysfunction transformation growing up escape 1940s
Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
7.0/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1933
87 Minutes
Director
Marie Dressler Wallace Beery Robert Young Maureen O'Sullivan Willard Robertson Tammany Young Frankie Darro Jack Pennick Paul Hurst Oscar Apfel Robert McWade
ship captain drunk son fiancée boss mother rousing madcap emotional pacific northwest washington state boat boats sea mother/son relationship alcoholism redemption storm wretched excess rise
Annie the tugboat captain tries to help two young lovers come together.
6.9/10
Drama
USA
1949
112 Minutes
Director
Clark Gable Alexis Smith Mary Astor Wendell Corey Audrey Totter Lewis Stone Marjorie Rambeau Frank Morgan Barry Sullivan Edgar Buchanan Leon Ames
casino owner wife son sister-in-law husband gambler engaging tense tender cool casino family home country club work vs. family gambling family feud scam disease robbery transformation
Gambling-house owner finds himself estranged from his wife and son.
6.9/10
Biography
USA
1941
100 Minutes
Director
Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon Felix Bressart Marsha Hunt Fay Holden Samuel S. Hinds Kathleen Howard George Lessey William Henry Henry O'Neill John Eldredge
mother orphan doctor butler sister senator touching emotional orphanage wisconsin train household texas death social activism deception adoption religion relationships underdog
After losing her young son, Edna Gladney opposes the unfair laws discriminating against children whose parents are unknown, and opens an orphanage for those children.
6.9/10
Drama
USA
1932
68 Minutes
Director
murderer warden best friend wife judge doctor bleak confident intense prison construction site dance hall speakeasy apartment deception friendship murder prohibition execution construction
A condemned murderer, in the process of being executed, relives the events that led to his being sentenced to die in the electric chair.
6.9/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1934
75 Minutes
Director
Paul Muni Glenda Farrell Ned Sparks Douglas Dumbrille Robert Barrat Hobart Cavanaugh Pat Wing Edward Ellis George Meeker Berton Churchill Sidney Miller
journalist lawyer governor editor young woman undertaker hilarious frenetic suspenseful newsroom funeral home graveyard advice column corruption romantic dilemma conspiracy framed missing persons mystery underdog
The managing editor for a newspaper, in hot water with his boss, is demoted to writing the "Nellie Nelson" heart throb column, where he gets the unexpected opportunity to crack a major story.
6.9/10
Comedy, Drama
USA
1961
153 Minutes
Director
Rosalind Russell Alec Guinness Ray Danton Madlyn Rhue Mae Questel
mother daughter son-in-law widower neighbor emotional melodramatic ship family home japan friendship marriage family mother/child relationship grief racism love transformation 1960s
A gentle love story about a Japanese businessman and widower, and a Brooklyn widow. But before a happy ending can ensue, they must learn again the lessons of tolerance, kindness, and forgiveness.
6.8/10
Drama
USA
1935
84 Minutes
Director
Kay Francis Ian Hunter Paul Lukas Sybil Jason Jessie Ralph Joe Sawyer Eddie Acuff Walter Kingsford Robert Strange Ferdinand Munier
actress journalist producer daughter nanny husband melodramatic brooding endearing london theater ship stage secret past fame missing persons tabloid journalism mother/daughter relationship redemption fall
A theatrical star abruptly leaves England to escape her secret past, while a newspaper reporter follows her trail to America to get the scoop.
6.7/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1934
86 Minutes
Director
Dick Powell Josephine Hutchinson John Halliday Frank McHugh Allen Jenkins Ruth Donnelly Dorothy Dare Marjorie Gateson
Society heiress Joan Bradford rebels against her mother's choice of a future husband by masquerading as a working class girl and dating a window washer.
6.7/10
Comedy
USA
1935
90 Minutes
Director
maid con artist girlfriend friend pilot cheeky witty crafty hotel radio station city airplane swindling impersonation greed deception romance performance quest temptation
A chambermaid impersonates the fictional subject of a composite photo that won a beauty contest, with whom a famed aviator falls in love.
6.7/10
Comedy, Romance
USA
1933
75 Minutes
Director
James Cagney Mary Brian Ruth Donnelly Allen Jenkins Claire Dodd Robert McWade
Small time con artist Lefty Merrill has co-organized a crooked dance marathon and set-up his girlfriend to win the prize money. When his partner disappears with money before the contest is ... See full summary »
6.7/10
Drama
USA
1933
90 Minutes
Director
Paul Muni Mary Astor Aline MacMahon Donald Cook Alan Dinehart Guy Kibbee Margaret Lindsay Jean Muir Anna Q. Nilsson Patricia Ellis Douglas Dumbrille
An ambitious farmer becomes a pioneer in the meat packing business, finding financial success but private disappointment over the course of many decades.
6.6/10
Biography
USA
1952
115 Minutes
Director
Esther Williams Victor Mature Walter Pidgeon David Brian Donna Corcoran Jesse White Maria Tallchief Howard Freeman Charles Watts Wilton Graff Frank Ferguson
dancer swimmer annette kellerman father charming gutsy inspiring spirited london australia united states synchronized swimming love triangle moving sexism prejudice sports underdog transformation growing up
Biopic of Australian swimming champ and entertainer Annette Kellerman. After overcoming polio, Kellerman achieves fame and creates a scandal when her one-piece bathing suit is considered indecent.
6.6/10
Comedy
USA
1932
72 Minutes
Director
William Powell Evelyn Brent George Sidney
Gar Evans is a "high pressure" promoter who tends to be unrealistically optimistic about his projects and exaggerates the chance of success. He sets up the "Golden Gate Artificial Rubber ... See full summary »
6.5/10
Comedy, Romance
USA
1931
80 Minutes
Director
Gloria Swanson Melvyn Douglas Alison Skipworth Ferdinand Gottschalk Robert Greig Warburton Gamble Greta Meyer Boris Karloff
A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.
6.5/10
Romance
USA
1946
107 Minutes
Director
Claudette Colbert John Wayne Don DeFore Anne Triola Frank Puglia Phil Brown Thurston Hall Louella Parsons Dona Drake
author captain lieutenant producer passenger charming madcap witty cheery train chicago ranch unlikely romance movies military service writers road trip pursuit love 1940s
En route to Hollywood, an author becomes smitten with a marine, though he is unaware of her celebrity status and is critical of her best-selling novel.
6.5/10
Drama
USA
1935
110 Minutes
Director
businessman boss wife friend customer soldier profound engaging emotional china siberia office ambition oil business communism values family discovery sacrifice
An American, working for his oil company in China, disregards all but the company's interests. " The characters and the institution portrayed in the story are not actual but the product of ... See full summary »
6.4/10
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1966
108 Minutes
Director
Jean Seberg Honor Blackman Sean Garrison Arthur Hill Georgette Anys Gregoire Asian Richard Angarola Albert Carrier
Kay Stanton, her husband Neil and son Tommy live on the French Riviera. While at the port, when her husband was on a trip she meets an American naval officer, and they begin an affair. Kay ... See full summary »
6.3/10
Comedy
USA
1930
80 Minutes
Director
Alice White Jack Mulhall Blanche Sweet Ford Sterling John Miljan Virginia Sale Lee Shumway Herman Bing Walter Pidgeon Spec O'Donnell
'Rainbow Girls' has just opened and closed on Broadway when Dixie, a actress in it, runs into smooth talking Hollywood Director Frank Buelow. He tells her she would be a natural, promises ... See full summary »
6.3/10
Romance
USA
1936
140 Minutes
Director
Fredric March Olivia de Havilland Gale Sondergaard Edmund Gwenn Claude Rains Anita Louise Louis Hayward Steffi Duna Billy Mauch Donald Woods Akim Tamiroff
hero pretty woman father mother grandfather melodramatic emotional passionate italy europe france africa cuba abandonment illegitimate child expedition romance adventure discovery quest
In 18th-century Italy, an orphan's debt to the man who raised him threatens to separate him forever from the woman he loves.
6.3/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1952
105 Minutes
Director
Kathryn Grayson Red Skelton Howard Keel Gower Champion Marge Champion Ann Miller Zsa Zsa Gabor Kurt Kaszner Marcel Dalio Diane Cassidy
producer writer partner showgirl niece banker lighthearted amusing charming paris salon new york city show business inheritance debt fashion transformation love 1950s
Three Broadway producers struggling to get backing for their show hope one's sudden inheritance of a half interest in a Parisian fashion house is the answer. They travel to Paris only to learn the salon is in debt and requires their help.
6.3/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1937
94 Minutes
Director
Fernand Gravey Joan Blondell Edward Everett Horton Alan Mowbray Mary Nash Jane Wyman Luis Alberni Kenny Baker
showgirl king doctor count duchess lighthearted charming outlandish paris ocean liner folies bergère apartment love class distinctions royalty deception debauchery love transformation wretched excess
Ex-King Alfred VII is a young, handsome, and charming erstwhile monarch who once ruled a nation of two million people. Now all he has left are his Count Humbert and Duchess Anna, along with... See full summary »
6.3/10
Musical, Comedy
USA
1952
105 Minutes
Director
Kathryn Grayson Red Skelton Howard Keel Gower Champion Marge Champion Ann Miller Zsa Zsa Gabor Kurt Kaszner Marcel Dalio Diane Cassidy
producer writer partner showgirl niece banker lighthearted amusing charming paris salon new york city show business inheritance debt fashion transformation love 1950s
Three Broadway producers struggling to get backing for their show hope one's sudden inheritance of a half interest in a Parisian fashion house is the answer. They travel to Paris only to learn the salon is in debt and requires their help.
6.2/10
Comedy
USA
1931
67 Minutes
Director
Joe E. Brown Dorothy Lee Ruth Hall Edward Woods Edward Nugent Wade Boteler John Harrington William Burress
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day, one of his letters gets accidentally ... See full summary »
6.2/10
Romance
USA
1947
91 Minutes
Director
Greer Garson Robert Mitchum Richard Hart Morris Ankrum George Zucco Cecil Humphreys David Hoffman
patient woman psychiatrist soldier husband friend touching melodramatic emotional psychiatrist's office prison camp cottage paris normandy coast romance guilt betrayal love triangle prisoners of war world war ii
Released from a POW camp at the end of WW2, a French soldier tricks the wife of a fellow French POW into believing her husband was killed by the Germans, and seduces the grieving woman but the 'dead' husband eventually returns home.
6.1/10
Comedy
USA
1933
74 Minutes
Director
Joe E. Brown Patricia Ellis Claire Dodd Frank McHugh Preston Foster Russell Hopton Sterling Holloway Emma Dunn Charles Wilson Jessie Ralph Douglas Dumbrille
baseball player girlfriend manager gambler teammate amusing heartwarming chicago baseball field baseball love success rivalry underdog adventure 1930s
Country bumpkin Elmer Kane joins the Chicago Cubs as the greatest hitter in baseball. His skill with a bat takes the team to the World Series, but on the way to the championship he has to deal with gamblers and crooked pitchers.
6.0/10
Comedy
USA
1938
81 Minutes
Director
Carole Lombard Fernand Gravey Ralph Bellamy Allen Jenkins Isabel Jeans Marie Wilson Marcia Ralston Ottola Nesmith Heather Thatcher Jacques Lory Tempe Pigott
marquis actress salesman friend lady chef amusing crafty paris restaurant hotel london house opera house scandal love triangle romance deception disguise jealousy
After meeting her in Paris, a penniless marquis relentlessly pursues a famous actress.
6.0/10
Crime, Drama
USA
1930
64 Minutes
Director
Alice White Chester Morris William Bakewell Richard Carlyle Marion Byron Maurice Black Lionel Belmore Shep Camp Ann Brody Nellie V. Nichols
New York girl has a dull boyfriend and seems destined for a dull marriage when she meets a rich playboy who has money to burn and places to go. She gets involved with the playboy and never ... See full summary »
5.7/10
Musical, Romance
USA
1954
115 Minutes
Director
Ann Blyth Howard Keel Fernando Lamas Bert Lahr Marjorie Main Joan Taylor Ray Collins
orphan love interest trapper native american chief ward mountie amusing airy uplifting playful melodramatic canada wilderness saloon love triangle murder rivalry love opposites attract adventure
Tomboy Rose Marie Lemaitre, the orphaned ward of Mountie Mike Malone, falls in love with him, and he with her. But when she goes to "learn to be a lady", she meets outlaw trapper James ... See full summary »
5.5/10
Musical
USA
1935
87 Minutes
Director
Irene Dunne Donald Woods Hugh Herbert Ned Sparks Joseph Cawthorn Louis Calhern Winifred Shaw
In 1898, composer Sid Barnett manages to get his sweetheart, Adeline the beer-garden singer, to sing the lead in his new Broadway operetta; this infuriates Elysia, the erstwhile star. But ... See full summary »
4.9/10
Drama
USA
1930
65 Minutes
Director
Conrad Nagel Bernice Claire Raymond Hackett Ralph Ince Tully Marshall Maurice Black William Holden George Cooper Blanche Frederici Ivan Linow Frederic Howard
Mary Dane and falsely imprisoned Bud Leonard love each other, but Lou Rinaldo, who framed Bud to get Mary, and escape-minded King Callahan, set events in motion to prove that love and ... See full summary »
4.4/10
Adventure
Italy|France
1961
126 Minutes
Director
Spencer Tracy Frank Sinatra Kerwin Mathews Jean-Pierre Aumont Gregoire Aslan Alexander Scourby Barbara Luna Cathy Lewis Bernie Hamilton Martin Brandt Louis Merrill
convict priest nurse governor prisoner patient thrilling inspiring island hospital south pacific mountain natural disasters missionary work redemption dangerous assignment volcano rescue quest sacrifice
Anti-Communist propaganda flick, in which the victory of Mao Tse-Tung's People's Liberation Army is seen through the eyes of an American journalist reporting from the Nationalists'side.
Crime, Drama
1941
94 Minutes
Director
Edward G. Robinson Edward Arnold Laraine Day Marsha Hunt William T. Orr Don Beddoe Walter Kingsford Charles Dingle Charles Halton
A crusading newsman (Edward G. Robinson) starts up a tabloid with a gangster (Edward Arnold) as his 50-50 partner.
Crime, Drama
1959
149 Minutes
Director
James Stewart Vera Miles Murray Hamilton Larry Pennell Nick Adams Diane Jergens Joyce Taylor
fbi agent wife best friend police chief gangster klansman thrilling tense melodramatic lecture hall household office store restaurant united states fbi career investigation gangsters nazis
An agent (James Stewart) with a worried wife (Vera Miles) stays 25 years fighting the Ku Klux Klan, gangsters, Nazi spies.
Action
1956
115 Minutes
Director
William Holden Lloyd Nolan Virginia Leith Charles McGraw Murray Hamilton Paul Fix L.Q. Jones James Garner Karen Steele Bartlett Robinson Malcolm Atterbury
test pilot military officer young man prisoner of war love interest veteran patriotic gripping air force base southern california airplane desert military air force korean war redemption love triangle cold war quest transformation
A shaken Korean veteran (William Holden) proves himself testing the X-2 rocket plane at Edwards Air Force Base.
Comedy
1960
126 Minutes
Director
Ernie Kovacs Dick Shawn Margo Moore Jack Warden Nobu McCarthy Don Knotts Robert Strauss Noreen Nash Parley Baer Marvin Kaplan Robert Emhardt
A GI (Dick Shawn) talks his captain (Ernie Kovacs) into building an island resort out of war surplus.
Musical, Comedy
1953
104 Minutes
Director
Lana Turner Ricardo Montalban John Lund Louis Calhern Jean Hagen Eduard Franz Beulah Bondi Joaquin Garay Archer MacDonald Dorothy Neumann Robert Burton
wealthy man heiress plantation owner psychiatrist secretary grandfather lighthearted engaging new york city office brazil hotel love triangle vacation misunderstanding fortune hunters career money love adventure
A rich girl (Lana Turner) follows her rich boyfriend (John Lund) to Brazil, where she flirts with a rich rancher (Ricardo Montalban).
Comedy
1963
126 Minutes
Director
Debbie Reynolds Barry Nelson Michael Rennie Diane McBain Hiram Sherman
husband wife girlfriend actor accountant neighbor airy lighthearted engaging apartment new york city bedroom hall divorce marriage reconciliation stranded love irs audit transformation
A publisher (Barry Nelson) and his ex-wife (Debbie Reynolds) meet on business, disrupted by his buddy (Michael Rennie) and fiancee.
War
1944
138 Minutes
Director
Spencer Tracy Van Johnson Robert Walker Phyllis Thaxter Scott McKay Robert Mitchum Don DeFore Stephen McNally Louis Jean Heydt Leon Ames Paul Langton
colonel captain lieutenant pilot wife patriotic rousing tense japan china ship naval base air raids survival world war ii stranded heroism bombing quest rivalry
Lt. Col. James Doolittle (Spencer Tracy) leads B-25s off the USS Hornet's deck on a 1942 mission to bomb Japan.
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